Sinking Soaking Mumbai.

The monsoon is not just a season anymore. Every monsoon brings with it, certain unexpected events which we think may happen once in a lifetime, as i earlier said, but they don't! Now every year, it's the same story with the rains. This area flooded, Central Railway shut, Western Railway late, all this with the recording "inconvenience to passengers is highly regretted." It's not exactly the railway authorities fault, not is it the BMC's fault ( why am i even saying this???) But when one is desperate to reach somewhere and it's a do or die, win or lose, today or never kind of case, who is one to blame?
I woke up this morning, with an air of finality, saying to myself, It will be a good day. After all, today was my admission day in college. Jai Hind to be precise. My name was on the first list of several colleges for BMM. But i chose JH! Peeping from my blanket cover i look out of the window, it was raining cats and dogs! I really wished there were no season like the monsoon! Got out of bed, it's only 7:00am. I knew i had to reach college at 10am. You see something went terribly wrong, either i did not pray to the Almighty last night, or i am having a bad day, (same for my hair!) Hurried had a bath, breakfast; and mum came storming out of the kitchen," you are not going anywhere! The college will postpone it till Monday." Like i am a relative of the Queen!
All odds were against me, but i had to go. I said to myself, it's not the first time i am going out in the rain. But i knew, that there was no guaranty that i was gonna come back home safe and sound or for that matter, the same day. I got a train from Goregaon at 10:30am and guess what??? I reached college at 12:45pm. The things i saw from the trains! The trains negotiating with the waterlogged tracks, the Mithi River which actually looked like a violent storm-hit Ganga, out to destroy the river banks; the waterlogged tracks, the plastic wrappers floating in them, also some leather footwear; the pitiful Central Railway trains which had stopped, with people stranded inside them who were just at the mercy of the water filled tracks! Worst hit areas were Mahim (of course because of Mithi River), Dadar, Mumbai Central, Grant Road - and i am just taking about the WR tracks. There were many things that i was regretting at that time, one of them was forgetting to take my digi cam :-(.
Who can i blame for all this? It was such an important day for me, and to go through all this? But i was determined to succeed. And i did, though i reached home pretty late. I did see that the BMC was trying to do it's best but i guess they don't believe in the saying, 'it's better to be safe than sorry'. But the way the Western Railways took initiatives to keep the life-line of Mumbai going was commendable. They were moving slowly, very slowly, but they did not stop. And the BEST made it rather easier to commute, by avoiding water logged areas. I want to thank them for their efforts. THANK YOU WR AND BEST!
Well, in the end, all's well that ends well!